More than 500 people packed Rio Rancho half of the gym high on Thursday, but there was no basketball or participate in a rally dynamism.
No, she packed the gym to hear 13 Judicial District Attorney Lemuel Martinez discuss absenteeism.
The conference began directing a grader-eighth.
RRMHS principal Lisa Dobson was satisfied with the voter turnout and said, the orientation is a good opportunity for students of the school, the various programmes and their responsibilities.
Martinez began the conversation by clicking the court juvenile criminal law, and then he went to absenteeism.
He said that 25 to 27% of children have 10 or more unentschuldigt absences, which means that students geschwänzt usual. During this period, students will help to probation clerk of the district court.
Martinez said that children in school is to maintain, for his own advantage.
“With the increased competitiveness in the country and the world, we want to give your child a chance to fight competition,” said Martinez. “Knowledge they need to learn how to compete, using at school. The school is the main asset of your child in the future. So, keep your child to school. ”
Martinez knows first-hand the importance of education. He is a former teacher, coach and administrator in Grants.
The New Mexico State Legislature passed laws of compulsory schooling, in the year 2004.
State Rep. Tom Swisstack, D-Rio Rancho, which is now the mayor of Rio Rancho, absenteeism sponsored the bill, also known as House Bill 106
The law requires the maintenance of the school district a list of political presence, early detection of students with truancy and absenteeism unentschuldigt, while intervention strategies that focus on maintaining a teaching Schulschwänzer in the recruitment and the prohibition of the school and the suspension of the expulsion Fine.
The amendments require the participation of the class that each student and the school districts of their truancy and absenteeism at the regular Public Education Department.
Schulschwänzer One is a student who has five unentschuldigt absences in a 20-day time.
Schools are required to identify early Schulschwänzer and try to solve the problem.
Letters to parents or guardians, after birth, a child of three, five, seven or 10 unentschuldigt absences.
Martinez said that your child has just outside the school might not be enough to ensure they will be in the class. He suggested, before signing your child to school and to ensure that all teachers, if the student went to school.
The burden of proof, Mr. Martinez is among parents.
The law focuses on schools for recognition, intervention, advice and lists of presence, as well as the provision of a legal mechanism, the delay of parents, the knowledge to enable students to Schulschwänzer.
After a first conviction, the parents get a fine of $ 25 to $ 100, and perhaps the community. At a second conviction, the parents get a fine of $ 500 and six months in jail.
Schulschwänzer High School student is not the prison, but they lose their driver’s license or the lockout.
Absenteeism is a problem, Martinez, not only because the students are themselves the risk of failure in the world, but as a general rule, the problems posed by crime and the obligation.
Martinez’s office is a partnership with Corrales, Bernalillo, Cuba, Jemez Springs and Rio Rancho police divisions, in collaboration with the Sandoval County Sheriff’s Department circle and other repressive countries, absenteeism deterrent.
They are Sweep shopping malls, parks, bus stops, downtown, fast-food restaurants and other areas, the meeting of the school year in the present day. It is for children who are not in school and to stop.